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Forging Futures in Conservation Careers
Conservation partners and Karatina University leadership at the symposium. © Save the Elephants/Karatina University A symposium organised by Save the Elephants to encourage...
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Conservation partners and Karatina University leadership at the symposium. © Save the Elephants/Karatina University A symposium organised by Save the Elephants to encourage...
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Naisula in Samburu National Reserve earlier this year © Meha Kumar/Save the Elephants In December 2023, Naisula, the tracked matriarch of the Samburu Ladies, led her herd...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has seen an 80% decline in the population of forest elephants over the last 10 years. The Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the northeast part of the country offers the last remaining stronghold for these elephants....
A week before Kenya’s historic ivory burn, Five tribal leaders flanked by their tribesmen - the Maasai (and Ndorobo), Samburu, Taita, Kalenjin (Pokot and Tugen) and Turkana - gathered, many in full regalia at the Serena Hotel for the first ever...
Fifteen years ago Melissa Groo took on the challenge of creating an Elephant News Service to keep all of the people interested in the science, management, and conservation of elephants informed of the latest happenings in Africa, Asia and around the...
You’ve seen the mighty basketball player’s pitch to save elephants, and Li Bing Bing’s “Say no to ivory” social media blitz, but how many of us know how reducing demand works, and more importantly, is it actually...
The new Standard Gauge Railway, stretching almost 500km from Mombasa to Nairobi, is perhaps the most important transport project Kenya has seen since the building of the first railway in the early 20th century. This railway is being raised above the...
On 15th March 2016 we received an immobility alert from one of our collared elephants in Samburu. We then received a call from Westgate Conservancy Scouts reporting that a herder had seen an injured, collared elephant in Loijuk. I immediately...
There was a sense of history in the air as Dr Richard Leakey took his seat at the head of the conference tables between two imposing men in uniform. Ever since Dr Leakey had been given the task of resuscitating the Kenya Wildlife Service as the...
Throughout the last year conservation organisations have been discussing the LAPSSET (Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor) railway line and oil pipeline construction. This construction concerns us all because...
Kenya’s Vision 2030 identifies securing of wildlife dispersal areas and migratory routes and pathways as significant ingredients of sustainable eco-tourism. Likewise, it is Save the Elephant’s (STE’s) conviction that the protection...
It is yet another bright year for us here at Save the Elephants Grassroots Education Program, and in this month of February, we have enrolled eleven students in our scholarship program. The students, who comprise six girls and five boys, have joined...